168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton finished a distant second behind Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen but led Mercedes’ first double podium of the year as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell brilliantly recovered to third. 

The Mercedes cars, heavily-revised following a major upgrade at last weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix, were se🐼cond-fastest behind the dominant Red Bulls in Sunday’s race in Barcelona.

Asked if Mercedes are back following their best race of 2023, Wolff told Sky: ”Let's keep🦋 our expectations real.

“There's such a long way to go in order to catch Red Bull. W𒁃e just need to grind away.

“It's a good moment ♋to see that 💟the development direction is right.”

Wolff added: “I think the learnings are is that we have a𝓡 good raceꦫ car. 

“I think Lewis was a good 🌠five-six seconds behind Max when he cleared Carlos, and I think we are just much closer. 

“But you see where the benchmark is💛. The gap at the end was 20 seconds. Maybe it is 15 in reality but that is just not where we aim to be.”

But Wolff is confident Mercedes can continue to make gains now that they have a clꩵear development path since taking the decision to abandon their ‘zeropod’ concept. 

“We just need to chip away,” Wolff said. 

“We’re really good at grinding. Once there is a set-up direction and we develop in that direc🎀tion, we just go for it. We have that advantage in terms of aero time. ℱ;

“But we also have to♉ be realistic. Today the temperatures really suited us. It was nice and fresh. Not too cold, not too hot, the car was in the absolute mega window.”